Tansy is an English word with synonyms like composite. Below you'll find 8 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tansy in a sentence
Tansy meaning
- A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare.
- A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish. "Originally flavoured with tansy, but by Pepys's time generally having spinach as its predominant flavouring."
Synonyms of Tansy
Using Tansy
- The main meaning on this page is: A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare. | A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish. "Originally flavoured with tansy, but by Pepys's time generally having spinach as its predominant flavouring."
- Useful related words include: golden buttons, scented fern, tanacetum vulgare, composite.
- In the example corpus, tansy often appears in combinations such as: tansy boggan, common tansy.
Context around Tansy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tansy
- In this selection, "tansy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, common, photo, manager, boggan, beetle and doi stand out and add context to how "tansy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include blossoms of tansy is used and committee said tansy ragwort has. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tansy" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tansy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Moore, pp. 154–156 Ethnobotany An infusion of the pulverized leaves and blossoms of tansy is used for dizziness and weakness. (21 words)
Jean Wilkinson, who chairs the Salt Spring Conservancy’s stewardship committee, said tansy ragwort has recently become more noticeable on the island. (22 words)
It will also help protect the endangered Tansy beetle, which lives in grassland on the site, by creating a new floodplain meadow habitat. (23 words)
He has often told Tansy and his best friend Axel (Jared Duskin) about the debt he owes to Rick Steadman (Chase Golden), a fellow ex-GI whom he has never met, but who saved his life after he was seriously injured. (41 words)
Ryan Briscoe Runquist et al, Isolation by environment and its consequences for range shifts with global change: Landscape genomics of the invasive plant common tansy, DOI: 10.1111/mec. (29 words)
Tansy, with the botanical name Tanacetum vulgare, will grow up up to five feet tall, produce yellow, button-like flowers from August until October and is extremely low maintenance. (29 words)
Example sentences (8)
Photo: Tansy Boggan/SuppliedWife and support manager Tansy Boggan said the swim — believed to be the first of its kind in the Clutha — had gone ‘‘unbelievably smoothly’’.
It will also help protect the endangered Tansy beetle, which lives in grassland on the site, by creating a new floodplain meadow habitat.
Ryan Briscoe Runquist et al, Isolation by environment and its consequences for range shifts with global change: Landscape genomics of the invasive plant common tansy, DOI: 10.1111/mec.
The next step for the research team is to see if common tansy has adapted to different climates and environments across the invaded range in Minnesota.
Tansy, with the botanical name Tanacetum vulgare, will grow up up to five feet tall, produce yellow, button-like flowers from August until October and is extremely low maintenance.
He has often told Tansy and his best friend Axel (Jared Duskin) about the debt he owes to Rick Steadman (Chase Golden), a fellow ex-GI whom he has never met, but who saved his life after he was seriously injured.
Jean Wilkinson, who chairs the Salt Spring Conservancy’s stewardship committee, said tansy ragwort has recently become more noticeable on the island.
Moore, pp. 154–156 Ethnobotany An infusion of the pulverized leaves and blossoms of tansy is used for dizziness and weakness.
Common combinations with tansy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: